Microsoft Technology Briefing - May 2025

We are thrilled to invite you to "Innovate with Azure & GitHub Day". This half-day (200-300 level) and full evening event is crafted by developers, for developers, and is designed to boost your development and applications with the latest and most relevant depth in Al and technology. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Collaborate with peers to grow your technical skills through challenge-based group sessions at a free Microsoft Hackathon. We are partnering with NVIDIA to bring you this Microsoft Azure Hackathon—combining technical content and AI scenarios to accelerate your productivity and advance your skills in building intelligent applications. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Det kan vara svårt att hänga med i alla förändringar som sker inom Microsoft 365 Copilot. Vi har därför nöjet att bjuda in dig till detta webinar som fokuserar på de senaste nyheterna i Microsoft 365 Copilot. Under detta webinar kommer vi att belysa viktiga uppdateringar, både inom produkt, material och insikter. Detta inkluderar nya funktioner, förbättringar av befintliga verktyg och intressanta användarfall som visar hur du kan dra nytta av dessa uppdateringar i din dagliga verksamhet.

Explore the Future of AI-Driven Analytics & Data Governance with Microsoft Fabric. Fabric has weekly releases with new features, making it important to stay up-to-date. Join us for an exclusive webinar on the future of data analytics and governance with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview. Tailored for data engineers, architects, and AI specialists, this event dives into Microsoft’s vision for an AI-powered data ecosystem.

Equip frontline workers with tools to boost productivity, engage with company culture, and simplify security. Learn about tech trends and success stories.

Boost efficiency and performance with scalable automation, protect data with top security, and optimize your investments with Azure.

Exclusive insights from Microsoft leaders on AI-enabled innovation. Boost ERP productivity with Microsoft Copilot for Dynamics 365 and optimize performance.

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2025 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are 0x140ce, VictorV, Vaisha Bernard of Eye Security! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the persistent growth and operational sophistication of Lumma Stealer, an info-stealing malware used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to target various industries. Microsoft, partnering with others across industry and international law enforcement, facilitated the disruption of Lumma infrastructure.

At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re taking important steps to secure the agentic workforce. We are excited to introduce Microsoft Entra Agent ID which extends industry-leading identity management and access capabilities to AI agents.

Read how you can improve your security posture by applying Zero Trust framework and principles based on learnings from the April 2025 Secure Future Initiative progress report.

Since April 2024, the threat actor that Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks as Marbled Dust has been observed exploiting user accounts that have not applied fixes to a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-27920) in the messaging app Output Messenger, a multiplatform chat software. These exploits have resulted in collection of related user data from targets in Iraq. Microsoft...

Meet the minds behind how Microsoft prioritizes cybersecurity across every team and employee. Three deputy chief information security officers share their experiences in cybersecurity and how they are redefining protection.

In 2024 alone, scammers drained the global economy of more than $1.03 trillion. Together, Microsoft and the other members of GASA hope to stem these losses going forward.

Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability in macOS that could allow specially crafted codes to escape the App Sandbox and run unrestricted on the system. We shared our findings with Apple and a fix was released for this vulnerability, now identified as CVE-2025-31191. We encourage macOS users to apply security updates as soon as possible.

Celebrate World Passkey Day with Microsoft! Join us in embracing passkeys for secure, passwordless sign-ins. Learn more about our commitment to a safer digital future.

At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re bringing together security engineers, researchers, and developers to share practical tips and modern best practices to help you ship secure code faster.

Congratulations to the winners of the Microsoft Security Excellence Awards that recognize the innovative defenders who have gone above and beyond.

Creating content with AI just got a whole lot easier. This week we began rolling out an updated Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to Microsoft 365 commercial customers, empowering them to unlock AI’s full potential in the creative process. Create will become generally available to commercial customers worldwide over the coming weeks. Enhancing Ideation and Execution We’ve entered a pivotal new era of work.

Few weeks back, I wrote a blog post on how to do Stock Technical Analysis using Microsoft 365 Copilot and for the deeper data analysis I used M365 Copilot in Excel. That step by step analysis assumed that you have the knowledge of data analysis, Excel, prompting, stock market and of course technical indicators. Which eventually means you are your own Data Analyst…kind of.

As we kick off Microsoft Build 2025, we have a new vision of how humans and AI-powered agents will collaborate—and the blueprint for how it’s already taking shape. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Annual Report reveals the arrival of the “Frontier Firm,” which is structured around AI, on-demand intelligence, and teams of humans and agents. Our report shows that workers at Frontier Firms are more likely to say their company is thriving, that they’re able to accomplish more, and that they’re...

Ever feel like you want to see more of your drawings, tables, and ideas at once in OneNote? You’re not alone! Many of you have asked for a canvas that makes better use of your valuable screen real estate, and we’ve been listening. While features like the simplified ribbon and full-screen mode have helped in the past, our newest update makes every pixel count without compromising quick access to functionality you rely on.

Read how the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, an evolution of Microsoft Teams Toolkit, is designed to help developers build agents and apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365.

We are less than 18 months away from the retirement of Exchange Web Services. Start planning your migration from EWS to Microsoft Graph.

If you’ve never participated in Microsoft Build (and even if you have), now is a great time to check it out! Digital access is free, and there are lots of different ways to make the most of it. You can immerse yourself in interactive coding labs and demos, learn from senior Microsoft leaders and industry experts, build skills, connect with colleagues, and stay up to date with all of the new and upcoming innovations Microsoft has to offer.

Explore powerful features in Microsoft Copilot Studio announced at Microsoft Build 2025, including multi-agent orchestration and more developer tools.

We’re excited to introduce the Agent Store — a centralized, curated marketplace that features agents built by Microsoft, trusted partners, and customers. The Agent Store offers a new, immersive experience within Microsoft 365 Copilot that enables users to browse, install, and try agents tailored to their needs.

Copilot Analytics helps customers measure AI to drive usage and business impact. In fact, customers using the Copilot Dashboard have increased Copilot usage more than twice as much as those who have not 1 . What gets measured, gets managed and we’re seeing this come to life with Copilot Analytics. Reports focused on AI strategy, adoption and business impact can be found in the Copilot Dashboard and in Viva Insights, while operational reports for IT pros are available in the Microsoft 365 admin...

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. This month we are excited to share that the Copilot Wave 2 spring release —including an updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app , the new Create experience, and Copilot Notebooks —has moved to general availability and begins...

The energy is still lingering in the air after another remarkable Microsoft 365 Community Conference , where our community of technologists and enthusiasts from around the world gathered to share, learn, and innovate together. This year’s keynotes set the stage for inspiration and transformation, and today, we are excited to announce that the highly anticipated keynote sessions from Jeff Teper, Vasu Jakkal, Jared Spataro, and Brenna Robinson are now available for all to experience.

Efficient workload management is essential in customer service environments where diverse customer interactions flow through multiple channels. With advanced prioritization capabilities in Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Dynamics 365 Customer Service, organizations can provide tiered service levels based on customer value, respond to customer sentiment, and ensure adherence to SLAs. Why use advanced prioritization? Prioritization...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supplier Communication Agent is here to transform the way purchasing professionals interact with suppliers and suppliers. Reimagining supplier communications in Dynamics 365 and enable leaner, faster, and more accurate workflows.

This April, we're adding new, advanced features for quality management in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. These provide extended quality control throughout the supply chain, ensuring compliance with regulations, boosting product quality, and enhancing customer satisfaction. These new features foster continuous improvements and risk mitigation through a feedback-driven approach. They also minimize reliance on third-party quality management solutions.

We’re excited to announce improved extensibility for 3rd party insights in email summaries in Outlook, allowing partners to surface richer sales insights. We’re also delivering the ability to Save AI notes to CRM (both Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce) directly from the meeting recap, allowing sellers to be able to save meeting notes directly to CRM.

Summarization features like case summary are now automatically enabled for all users of model-driven apps that use the incident entity. If you currently do not have case summary enabled, this will get switched on automatically after this change.

Dynamics 365 Contact Center now includes advanced forecasting capabilities that enable organizations to predict case and conversation volumes with precision. By analyzing historical trends and applying AI-driven insights, businesses can anticipate customer demand, optimize resource allocation, and enhance service delivery.

As finance leaders scale to meet growing business complexity—spanning global entities, evolving regulations, and rising business performance demands—the pressure is on to do more than close the books. Today’s finance organizations must move faster, manage risk more proactively, and adapt dynamically.

Today, we’re announcing the first price increase for Dynamics 365 Business Central in more than five years.

Managing workforce availability efficiently is essential for delivering consistent and high-quality customer service. A well-structured shift planning and scheduling process ensures service representatives are assigned to the right shifts at the right time. This helps businesses maintain optimal service levels while balancing service representative workload. By defining shift structures, aligning staffing with demand, and ensuring...

Building on the initial wave of AI agents announced Microsoft is excited to announce that several new ERP agents will be available for public preview.

With the public preview of the Dynamics 365 Human Resources Recruiting add-on, IT administrators can now empower HR teams with a modern recruiting experience—built on Microsoft’s Power Platform and enhanced by AI and Microsoft 365 integration.

Microsoft has launched the 2025 release wave 1, a six-month rollout of new and enhanced capabilities featured during the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event.

You can now develop functions using Python 3.12 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans. Python 3.12 builds on the performance enhancements that were first released with Python 3.11 and adds several performance and language readability features...

Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest release of Windows Server 2025 is the addition of hybrid and multicloud capabilities, aligned with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach. With hotpatching, we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available...

Learn more about the solutions that Microsoft and Red Hat have to offer that drive technological advancements and empower organizations.

We are introducing a cost-effective, simple, and efficient solution for migrating from RU-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB to vCore-based. You can now move to vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB at no cost using the Azure portal, with no additional r...

We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do more with less.

Azure AI Foundry supports Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with the o4-mini model in Azure OpenAI, enabling adaptive learning for context-aware applications. Alongside RFT, we introduced Global Training, allowing fine-tuning from 12+ Azure regions at...

Announcing the General Availability of Workspace Gateway Metrics in Azure API Management!Two new metrics—CPU Utilization (%) and Memory Utilization (%)—are now available for API Management workspace gateways, offering deeper visibility into resource usage...

Explore the infrastructure and datacenter design that powers over 60 datacenter regions and 300+ datacenters globally with Microsoft's Virtual Datacenter Tour.

Announcing the general availability of autoscaling in Azure API Management workspace gateways. With the introduction of autoscaling in workspace gateways, customers can now increase the reliability of their deployments. Autoscaling dynamically adjusts th...

Announcing expanded support for AWS Bedrock model endpoints across all Generative AI policies in Azure API Management’s AI Gateway. This release enables you to apply advanced management and optimization features such as Token Limit Policy, Token Metric...

Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI now supports up to 100,000 records per query, a significant increase from the previous 30,000-record limit. This enhancement enables deeper investigations and broader data analysis directly within the portal, allowing users...

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service is now generally available, empowering developers to design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. It supports multi-agent workflows, allowing specialized agents to handle complex tasks, accelerate decisions, and...

Innovation doesn’t always happen in a straight line. From the invention of the World Wide Web, to the introduction of smartphones, technology often makes massive leaps that transform how we interact with the world almost overnight.

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Actions, our fully managed platform that transforms how organizations automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage.

Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning.

In this blog, I’ll cover the latest slate of announcements across Microsoft Fabric and the entire Azure Data portfolio, designed to empower every developer on the planet to do more with data.

To help these AI agents become even more powerful and handle more complex tasks, they need state-of-the-art models, integrated tools, and built-in governance. At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re unveiling 10 innovations in Azure AI Foundry to make this possible.

Agent2Agent can enable structured agent communication—exchanging goals, managing state, invoking actions, and returning results securely and observably. Developers can use tools they know, like Semantic Kernel or LangChain, and still interoperate.

During FabCon Las Vegas, we introduced the Fabric CLI — a developer-first command-line tool that brings a familiar, file-system-like experience to working with Microsoft Fabric. Since then, thousands of developers have jumped in: exploring, scripting, and embedding the CLI into local workflows. But for many enterprise teams, one question kept coming up: “When will it...

As the capabilities of our Fabric Platform Git Integration continue to evolve, we’re happy to share some updates about Fabric’s latest CI/CD capabilities. These advancements are designed to enhance the developer experience and simplify the integration of DevOps practices into everyday workflows. With these innovations, Fabric continues to empower teams to build, test, and deploy...

Understanding complex data pipelines created by others can often be a challenging task, especially when users must review each activity individually to understand its configurations, settings, and functions. Additionally, manul updates to general settings, such as timeout and retry parameters, across multiple activities can be time-consuming and tedious. Copilot for Data pipeline introduces advanced capabilities...

The introduction of file-based destinations for Dataflows Gen2 marks a significant step forward in enhancing collaboration, historical tracking, and sharing data for business users. This development begins with SharePoint file destinations in CSV format, offering a streamlined way to share with users on the SharePoint platform. Overview of file-based destinations File-based destinations allow data to...

With AI-powered capabilities in Data Wrangler, you can now do even more to accelerate exploratory analysis and data preparation in Fabric.

Microsoft Build 2025 delivered a powerful vision for the future of data and AI, with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI at the heart of the story. From AI-powered productivity with Copilot to deep integration with Cosmos DB, this year’s announcements reinforced Microsoft’s commitment to unifying the data experience across roles, tools, and industries. Fabric: The...

Agentic DevOps is the next evolution in the software development lifecycle. Read how these AI agents help developers accelerate delivery and stay focused on high-impact work while remaining in control of the process.

Have you ever encountered unexpected issues due to file encoding when working in cross-platform environments? These frustrating problems can disrupt your workflow and consume valuable time. Visual Studio addresses these concerns with a new feature – the Default File Encoding option. You can now specify the encoding Visual Studio should use when saving files. This...

We are thrilled to unveil exciting new enhancements in the My Virtual Machine view within Azure DevTest Labs that will revolutionize your VM management experience. With these updates, managing your virtual machines has never been easier or more efficient. Imagine being able to multi-select VMs to start, stop, restart, or delete them all at once...

In April, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

In this blog, we will look at implementing the Semantic caching use case using Azure Managed Redis. Azure has been at the forefront of providing caching solutions for over a decade with the Azure Cache for Redis enterprise. This service empowered developers with a high-performance, scalable cache that significantly enhanced the responsiveness of their applications.

AI agents, model context protocols (MCPs), and emerging AI workflows are fundamentally transforming software development paradigms and broadening the range of applications we can create. Developers are expected to keep up with the pace of innovation, but that’s hard to do when working from traditional development environments or legacy VDI solutions. With Microsoft Dev Box...

Implementing features has never been easier: Just assign a task or issue to Copilot. It runs in the background with GitHub Actions and submits its work as a pull request.

The Visual Studio 2022 17.14 update is here, and it brings great quality-of-life improvements—especially around NuGet authentication. From context about the authentication needs of private NuGet feeds to a simplified account selection workflow, this update helps you stay focused on your code! If you haven’t already, download the latest Visual Studio update to take advantage...

Learn how to go from curious coder to AI wizard—with a little help from GitHub.

A full look at agent mode in GitHub Copilot, including what it can do, when to use it, and best practices.

Celebrate #MaintainerMonth with two big opportunities to showcase your open source project at GitHub Universe and WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Applications are open. Don’t miss out!

In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2025-0072, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU, and show how it can be exploited to gain kernel code execution even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is enabled.

We have architected Microsoft Discovery to be highly extensible, enabling researchers to integrate the latest Microsoft innovations with their own models, tools, and datasets as well as a wide range of partner and open-source solutions.

As one of the first global enterprises to implement Microsoft 365 Copilot and other AI tools at scale, we entered the AI era with a mix of boldness and caution. That meant striving to capture the opportunities of AI fully while protecting our employees, customers, and company. Throughout that process, we’ve relied on a series...

Microsoft Teams has become so integral to the way we work here at Microsoft, it’s hard to believe that this “chat-based workspace” product has existed for less than a decade. The application was first launched in 2017. Today, Teams has the highest daily usage of any Microsoft 365 app across the company, with roughly 80...

We in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, are at the forefront of innovation, constantly striving to enhance the experiences of both our employees and external customers. As “Customer Zero,” we are the first to use and test our own products such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, ensuring they meet the highest standards before they reach...

Our strong partnership with our works councils has led to the successful deployment of many Microsoft 365 Copilot applications, including one of the latest, Microsoft Places. Places is a workplace scheduling tool that uses AI to make scheduling in-person meetings and working in hybrid work environments easier for you and your colleagues. It helps hybrid...

Advance your expertise with our revamped Security hub Designed for learners at all levels, this centralized hub is your go-to resource for Security technical skilling content, making it easier to pursue your unique security objectives. Find expert guidance aligned to your security journey. Whether you need to build foundational security skills, gain specialized knowledge, or prove your capabilities with Microsoft Credentials, get the guidance you need.

Microsoft Learn is committed to empowering individuals and organizations with the skills needed to innovate, adapt, and thrive in the AI economy. We’re excited to share how we’re evolving the way you learn using AI to enable faster skill acquisition personalized to your needs.

Our total rewards communications are an essential aspect of empowering employees to understand the value of Microsoft compensation and (for employees in the United States) their benefits, while also reminding them of the investment that the company is making in them. When done correctly, this empowerment leads to improved engagement and retention and increased quality...

Computer security updates, commonly referred to as “patches,” are a crucial aspect of the IT operations of every large organization today. As a global software company with more than 230,000 employees worldwide, we at Microsoft are no different. Like most aspects of our IT services journey, our security and patch management story is deeply connected...

Copilot Pages is a dynamic, persistent canvas in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat designed for multiplayer collaboration. With Pages, you can turn Copilot responses into durable insights with a side-by-side page that you can edit and, when you’re ready, share with your team to collaborate. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re using Copilot Pages...

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, maintaining network reliability is paramount. Our team in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, keeps the company connected and maintains foundational network services for all our employees and guests. With an environment comprising 64,000 network devices, over 700 buildings supporting 350,000 users with over 1 million connected devices generating...

Microsoft OneNote is a tool used every day by millions of people, from school teachers to boardroom executives, to keep their professional lives orderly. In October 2025 some of those lives could become a little more chaotic when Microsoft ends support for the Windows 10 version of OneNote. To prevent that kind of disruption, organizations...